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Guide

Sep 29, 2016

Media folder too large.?

I just bought a readynas 102.. setting up has been painfully slow all round.. eventually I have used the backup option to copy movies from my external hard drive to the Nas in a folder called movies. ...

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Jacobnz

Guide

Sep 29, 2016

I have been using Google Chrome, the movie files have just become visible so I assume perhaps it just couldn't access the file during the backup process.

Is there a way to create individual files for each hard drive in a raid 0 setup or would I need to format and start again?

Also while I have your input I am quite new to streaming and networking I will be using a raspberry pi 3 for streaming he movies from the Nas us smb the fastest connection method?

StephenB

Guru - Experienced User

Sep 29, 2016

What drive models?

Jacobnz wrote:
I have been using Google Chrome, the movie files have just become visible so I assume perhaps it just couldn't access the file during the backup process.

Try accessing with file explorer

Jacobnz wrote:

Is there a way to create individual files for each hard drive in a raid 0 setup or would I need to format and start again?

You'd need to start again - destroying the existing volume, create two new ones, then recreating your shares and copying your data.

You should have backups with any RAID format though.

Jacobnz wrote:

Also while I have your input I am quite new to streaming and networking I will be using a raspberry pi 3 for streaming he movies from the Nas us smb the fastest connection method?

NFS could could be faster with the Raspberry pi, but SMB should be fast enough. Even full BluRay only requires about 6-7 megabytes per second, and a typical MKV requires much less. There's no need for plex if you are using SMB - plex and ReadyDLNA use their own connection methods.

Jacobnz
Guide
Sep 30, 2016
I just tried connecting my usb3 external hard drive to the rear of the nas unit as you said to move files faster, but it didnt show up so i tried restarting the nas, it took a while to load and then said i have no volumes setup... have i lost everthing?

I have retarted the nas and disconnected the usb drive, it now says the readynas admin page is offline?
- JennC
  NETGEAR Employee Retired
  Oct 01, 2016
  Hello Jacobnz,
  
  Did you not safely remove the USB disk? There is an eject button on the admin page before unplugging the usb disk. Try rebooting the NAS again without the USB disk again and see if the admin page will load.
  
  Regards,
  - JBDragon1
    Virtuoso
    Oct 02, 2016
    Ya, on the Admin Page where you see the drive you plugged in, there's a little gear with a option to format or Eject. Before pulling the HDD from USB or eSata, Eject first and when it tells you it's been ejected, then go pull the USB or esata drive.    Still it's not the fastest way to transfer files. I've been restoring my ReadyNAS 516 for a few days now.
    
    I have to say this. The BACKUP software SUCKS!!! I lost almost 3TB of Data to the ReadyNAS backup!!! Why? Because there's some issue withmy 3TB HDD I used, but since it looked like it had my Data on it, and the logs didn't show any issues, I figured it was all good. Until I went to restore and found out half or more of my files were curupted.   My new 8TB drive was fine I used to backup most of my files, but the 3TB one was bad.
    
    That Backup software blows for so many reasons. I'm going to have to figure something else use. That's just not going to work. All my files also didn't go back into the directory's they were suppose to.   It's really been a nightmare. Bad enough I had to figure out what I could fit onto the 8TB HDD manually and whatever left on the 3TB HDD. It really is some primative software and I don't recomend it. Advoid like the plage. I'm now trying to get my Data I lost once again by other means.